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Rob Kennedy

Hetton-le-Hole cannabis farm looked after by illegal immigrant to pay debt to traffickers

An illegal immigrant who turned cannabis gardener to pay his debts to people traffickers has been jailed.

Indrit Stuparu, from Albania, was told he could repay those who smuggled him into the UK by tending to the drugs factory.

When police raided a house in Hetton-le-Hole, Sunderland, on December 21 last year, they found Stuparu with 168 cannabis plants.

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